WAA Juwara Rubbishes Defection Claims
Friday 19th January 2007
By Alieu Jamanka & Njie Baldeh
Lamin Waa Juwara, an executive member of National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD) has refuted recent widespread rumours that he has cross-carpeted to the ruling A.P.R.C.
According to reports, Mr Juwara had gone to his native Niamina Dankunku to help campaign for the APRC- sponsored candidate in the forthcoming National Assembly elections scheduled to take place on 25th January 2007.
In an exclusive interview with these reporters at his residence in Brikama on Monday, the former Niamina Dankunku Parliamentarian described the allegations as unfounded and baseless. According to him, his purpose of visiting Niamina was to see his large extended family there as head of the household, adding that it was necessary for him to be there to consort with his family. “I travelled to Dankunku not to help or campaign for any party or individual, but to see my family. As the head of the household I believe that it is my responsibility to be with my family. So if people are going around claiming that now I am with the APRC or other party, such claims are unfounded and there is no iota of truth in that claim,” Mr Juwara asserted.
However, on the question of his opinion on the political situation in Niamina, Mr Juwara opined that politics is in its worse form in Niamina Dankunku and Niamina West districts respectively. This, he said, is very bad for the community in that area. “These two Niaminas have been inflicted with an undesirable phenomenon of tribalism and it has never been so before. But after all the critical observations, I found out that Hamat Bah and his NRP ideals are responsible for the tribal problem in Niamina. This is evident in both Niamina Dankunku and West, as one of those NRP-sponsored candidates came to me at Dankunku and asked me to support him and help him in the campaign, but I told him that was going to be the last thing that I would do, because it’s not possible as it would make me politically irrelevant and would make me unloyal to the M.O.U. that I participated in its signing to form an alliance of opposition parties,” Mr Juwara said.
Juwara further accused Hamat Bah of being an opportunist, explaining that he filed two candidates in that area. He claimed that Hamat Bah is trying to take advantage of the fact that Darboe may not contest in the next presidential elections owing to his age, adding that he is secretly nursing the ambition to succeed Darboe as the flag bearer of the alliance.
He finally assured that he would nonetheless intervene and break all barriers of tribalism in Niamina.
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